You take the salmon out of the packaging. Can it be cooked directly or do you have to wash it first?
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My husband loves salmon so much so that he eats it for breakfast. When he buys fresh salmon fillets he always cooks them straight from the package but he wonders if he should clean them first.
“Some people like to rinse their salmon really well before cooking it. They do this to get rid of things like sand and dirt” says Qinchun Rao Ph.D. professor of food and nutrition at Florida State University and chair of the Aquatic Food Products Division at the Institute of Food Technologists. “They think that not only does this make the salmon cleaner for cooking but it also helps remove bacteria especially if the salmon is not super fresh.”
